<p><strong>Ceprocs&trade; &nbsp;- communication problems are a foreign word<br /><br /><strong>Why CEPROCS&trade;?</strong></strong></p>
<p>Our experience in various industries has brought usgreat knowledge and insight in developing purchasing solutions and procurement strategies. Through the diversity of our client we have defined a standardized, consolidated procurement process, tailored and characterized by consistency, accuracy and efficiency.</p>
<p>Our goal is to become a knowledge catalystthat will enable us to design, customize and adjust procurement strategies, creating growth opportunities for your business.</p>
<p>We act as an &rsquo;&rsquo;extended workbench&rdquo; able to fully integrate and provide full service purchasing for tactical and strategic process of our clients. This is done in a progressive way to ensure optimal business conditions, a leaner and more effective process, and disclosure of potential synergies. Therefore, the transition is oriented towards optimizing the procurement processes of the client.</p>
<p><strong>Our focus is:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Identifying and evaluating your needs in order to correlatethem with and address your requirements</li>
<li>Developing individual, perfectly coordinated business models by clearly defining the procurement functions: roles, responsibilities, systems, processes, skills and capabilities needed</li>
<li>Defining procurement strategies based on the assessment of your needs</li>
<li>Granting financial viability and quality of the process andeffectiveness of the cross-trainings</li>
<li>Defining your goals and priorities</li>
<li>Conducting initial risk assessments</li>
<li>Your Success and exceeding your Expectations</li>
</ul>
<p>Globalization and reaching new emerging markets drives us towards recruiting and training talent to be able to design procurement strategies tailored to local cultures and economies. The European language coverage qualifies us to have the competences and knowledge for communication with you in your native language.</p>
<p><strong>Advantages of having CEPROCS&trade; as a partner: </strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Near shore location and best cost performance ratio</li>
<li>Experienced BPO Know-how</li>
<li>High level services</li>
<li>Strong role in European procurement</li>
</ul>
<p>Our daily operations include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Transactional and tactical approach, with the objective of quick turnaround requirements</li>
<li>Strategic approach, as a cost effective driver</li>
<li>Customer focus approach</li>
</ul>
<p>A customer tailored solution, adapted to&nbsp;regional or global context, is most efficient due to aspects like market dynamics, cultural environment, and business philosophy among other external factors. Therefore, this type of approach is our key driver in delivering the most cost effective solution.</p>
<p>This is how CEPROCS&trade; can help you get ahead of your competitors: business development is deployed by maintaining a constant focus on markets and customers, keeping in mind at all times that our offered services should come with a competitive advantage.</p>

<p>Purchasing,&nbsp;Accounting and HR Services</p>
<p>Businessfield-Automotive (Production) and Non&ndash;Auto (non-production)</p>
<p><strong>Industries<br /><br /></strong>To address these challenges, we rethink new methods for generating cash, use smart tools to help you reduce costs and efficiently mitigate business&rsquo; risks. We reshape procedures and simultaneously envision processes in line with the modern technologies that can maximize a business&rsquo; potential.<br /><br />We reimagine the way industries can shape their development and offer them a range of solutions for increased effectiveness and competitive market results.<br /><br />It is important to rethink the role for procurement and to refer to it as an important lever for optimizing spend, investing in innovation and technology in a cost effective manner, and on the long run for pursuing towards achieving sustainable growth and development of the business.<br /><br /><em>Automotive</em><br /><br />The dynamic of the automotive field keeps our strategic approach awake and sensitive to the changes, so that we can deliver growth, process innovation and reduce costs and cycle time.<br /><br />Automotive industry is one of the most regulated industries worldwide. Safety and emission standards reflect themselves in the strategy of companies operating in the automotive sector, and indirectly have an impact on the cost of operation and manufacturing costs.<br /><br />Therefore, in the context of regulated industries, where public policies and regulations can act as exogenous factors in influencing the activities of companies, it is important to rethink the role for procurement and to refer to it as an important lever for optimizing spend, investing in innovation and technology in a cost effective manner, and on the long run for pursuing towards achieving sustainable growth and development of the business.<br /><br />Our experience in this industry in offering procurement services, by having a key role in European procurement business for Opel/Vauxhall indirect procurement, has provided us with a large partner network base and has built extensive experience in commerce industry.<br /><br />The complexity of the Opel / Vauxhall project and the particularity of the automotive industry entail development of the business and process to ensure flexibility to adapt to changes due to new business needs or extend of procurement activities. Our available resources, know-how and capabilities for providing efficient and effective solutions has enabled our client to focus on their main strategies, regulatory compliance while improving their business processes, reducing cost and increasing savings.<br /><br />Our capabilities to align to the client&rsquo;s requirements and to work in its best interest are emphasized by a yearly increase of transactional purchase request inflow of the number of materials purchased, the number of suppliers and by increase of transactional spend. A comparable uptrend has marked also strategic purchasing, contract management and material master maintenance.<br /><br /><em>Fragrance</em> <br /><br />We consistently deliver innovating solutions that meet our customer demands because the fragrance industry is a cross functional blend of scientists, perfumers, flavorists and application specialists and rely on proprietary knowledge and ingredients.<br /><br /><em>Oil and Gas</em> <br /><br />We offer competitiveness through constant dialogue and adapted solutions to stay ahead with the business dynamic.<br /><br /><em>Electronics</em> <br /><br />Offering tailored solutions to you is to support innovation and to stay competitive. We offer know-how and expertise to improve business results and to deploy capital more productively.<br /><br /><em>B2B</em> <br /><br />The quality of services defines the integrity and solid structure of a company. Is not about reports and conclusions, is about reducing the risks, improving the processes and reinvesting the profit.</p>

General Motors / Opel
SAF-Holland
Sonepar
PSG Project

<p><strong>Purchasing is our business </strong></p>
<p>We are a Central European Procurement Consulting Service company. Focused on procurement services, we are a fully integrated Business Process Outsourcer. Our solutions simplify and improve business processes, provide new opportunities and enable you to focus on your core business. We offer simplified business performance solutions for your complex, advanced and continuously changing environment. Our mission is to take over your &ldquo;none-core&rdquo; day-to-day tasks so you can allocate your resources strategically. Our tailored procurement solutions control cost and capital intensity. They also strengthen market engagement, support organizational transformation, manage risks and make accurate business predictions our partners can always rely on.</p>
<p>Clearly defined business models and business intelligence enableus to provide impressive ROI to our clients. The results achieved are increasing the organizational efficiency as well as theeffectiveness of the clients&rsquo; organizations.</p>
<p>CEPROCS&trade; solutions are providing lean and highly effective processes, best conditions, define and realize potential synergies. We are a nearshore operation, close to our clients, speak all important European languages, embedded in the global environment.</p>
<p>Our strong focus on strategic alignment with our clients&rsquo; objectives, strong and efficient process management and standardization as well as minimized process time is com-bined with our market and category expertise.</p>
<p>CEPROCS&trade; THE SYSTEM OF SUCCESS.</p>

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- Procurement processes are usually complex
- Storage as a cost-intensive factor
- Lead times often too high
- Internal cost structures must be optimized